Prosecutors are appealing Edward "Jake" Wagner's sentence and asking the Ohio Supreme Court for a harsher penalty.

Prosecutors in Ohio are pushing for a tougher sentence for Edward “Jake” Wagner, who admitted to his role in the 2016 Pike County massacre that claimed the lives of eight members ...

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX ... Billy Wagner’s trial is scheduled to begin on Jan. 6. He continues to plead not guilty to all 22 charges including eight counts of aggravated murder from the ...

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio — A man convicted in the killings of eight people from another Ohio family is seeking a new trial ... to the Rhoden killings, which only served to connect Wagner to criminal ...

WAVERLY, Ohio — The murder trial for the patriarch of the Wagner family won’t happen ... of shooting and killing eight members of the Rhoden and Gilley families “execution-style.” ...

The infamous case still stands as the largest — and one of the most gruesome — murder cases in Ohio’s history ... Jr. and Frankie Rhoden, as well as Frankie’s fiancé, Hannah Gilley. Billy Wagner has ...

WAVERLY, Ohio — The date the murder trial for the patriarch of the Wagner family will begin was ... of shooting and killing eight members of the Rhoden and Gilley families "execution-style." ...

WAVERLY, Ohio ... told Wagner, who took the stand in his own defense late last month and testified he knew nothing about his relatives’ 2016 plot to kill members of the Rhoden family over ...

WAVERLY, Ohio – The conviction ... Like his two sons and wife, Billy Wagner was charged with eight counts of aggravated murder and 14 related charges for the Rhoden homicides.

Jurors convicted a man Wednesday in the killings of eight people from another Ohio ... murder in the 2016 shootings of seven adults and a teenager from the Rhoden family. Wagner sat motionless ...